What is a corporate person, and how has if affected our democracy? About a hundred years before the crucial Citizens United decision, a legal fiction was created called corporate personhood. And it’s caused great harm to our democratic system. Now Vermont state Senator Virginia Lyons has started the national ball rolling with her resolution to end corporate personhood.
On the second haf of the show, Burt and constitutional law Professor John Greabe analyze the Florida federal judge’s ruling striking down the entire bi-partisan Health Care Reform Bill. It ain’t over yet.